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Re:JavaScript Trademark Update by tgma on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:55PM (#44408482)
I mean I get Oracle hate and stuff, but remember the great and lovely Sun Microsystems used all tricks in the bag against Microsoft with respect to Java late 90s/early 2000s.

So, is "X abuses IP law" hatred is out of principle or because folks seem to be in love with Sun and Google and hate Oracle and Microsoft.

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Re:JavaScript Trademark Update by mcv on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:10AM (#44410515)
Because Microsoft was trying to takeover and change Java, and Sun actually made Java. How is that in any way the same situation as this?
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Re:JavaScript Trademark Update by tgma on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:11AM (#44528318)
Take over and change? They were adding functionality: embrace and extend. It wasn't like most reasonable people wouldn't agree it was lowercase "javascript".

Seems pretty similar to what's happening today.

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Re:JavaScript Trademark Update by flomo on Sunday June 29, 2025 @03:27AM (#44410978)
Specifically, this is why Internet Explorer had "JScript". Microsoft did bad things to Java and lost their trademark license.
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